Toni Stadler

(b Munich, 5 Sept 1888; d Munich, 5 April 1982). German sculptor and draughtsman. He was the son of Toni von Stadler (1850-1917), a landscape painter. He first studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Munich in 1906-7. From 1909 to 1911 he worked in Berlin, in August Gaul's studio and elsewhere. He began studying under Hermann Hahn (ii) at the Kunstakademie in Munich after World War I with his friends Ludwig Kasper and Fritz Wrampe (1893-1934). During a period in Paris (1925-7) he had access to Aristide Maillol's studio. After returning to Munich, Stadler made a cautious start on independent works of his own: small sculptures and portrait heads such as the extremely sensitive Bust of a Boy (1928; Munich, Lenbachhaus). In 1935 he was awarded a scholarship to the Villa Massimo in Rome and in 1938 another to the Villa Romana in Florence. From 1942 to 1945 he taught at the St?del-Schule in Frankfurt am Main, and from 1946 to 1958 he was a professor at the Kunstakademie in Munich.

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